Hi - I'm the editor-in-chief -- a big thank you for the kind flurry of Bitcoin donations we've seen today! Sorry our BitPay system is a bit crap - I'm no expert in these things, but hope to have something better, and a crypto address, posted up soon after these protests settle.

Hi - I'm the editor-in-chief -- a big thank you for the kind flurry of Bitcoin donations we've seen today! Sorry our BitPay system is a bit crap - I'm no expert in these things, but hope to have something better, and a crypto address, posted up soon after these protests settle.

Also, make sure to set up your Reddit account so that it has secure access so when you do solicit for funds to an address that someone else won't be hacking your account and diverting money elsewhere by creating or editing posts to show a different wallet address.

post a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) address and people can send you payments in any amount with **no need for Bitpay or any other payment processor that might cut you off**
install any BCH compatible wallet and you can have your own BCH address in minutes
nobody can censor this or steal these funds from you - as long as you maintain control of the keys, **you are sovereign over these funds**. They move when you say, nobody can block them, nobody can confiscate them, nobody can deny you from receiving funds.

Also, please offer Monero donation address.
Monero is an untraceable cryptocurrency with very low fees. That way you will protect both your balance and spending, but also the identity of donors. BTC and BCH doesn't offer that degree of privacy.

Be aware, a former developer for Monero declares that Monero's privacy is not 'fit for purpose' (i.e. it doesn't work).
1. [How buying pot with Monero will get you busted — Knacc attack on Cryptonote coins](https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/how-buying-pot-with-monero-will-get-you-busted-knacc-attack-on-cryptonote-coins-b157cd97e82f)
2. [Exchange Denial of Service in Monero](https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/exchange-denial-of-service-in-monero-2b6f63454ac0)
3. [Fake deposit amount exchange vulnerability in Monero](https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/fake-deposit-amount-exchange-vulnerability-in-monero-dc230f7f02d8)
4. [Hiding your IP while using Ryo or other Cryptonotes + IP reveal exploit in Monero/OpenAlias](https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/hiding-your-ip-while-using-ryo-or-other-cryptonotes-ip-reveal-exploit-in-monero-openalian-add97a464d48)
5. [Cryptonight-GPU — FPGA-proof PoW algorithm based on floating point instructions](https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/cryptonight-gpu-fpga-proof-pow-algorithm-based-on-floating-point-instructions-92524debf8e8)
6. [Tracing Cryptonote ring signatures using external metadata](https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/tracing-cryptonote-ring-signatures-using-external-metadata-8e4866810006)
7. [Newly added - FloodXMR: Low-cost transaction flooding attack with Monero’s bulletproof protocol*](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/455.pdf)
>We show how an attacker can take
advantage of Monero’s Bulletproof protocol, which reduces transaction
fees, to flood the network with his own transactions and, consequently,
remove mixins from transaction inputs.
>Assuming an attack timeframe
of 12 months, our findings show that an attacker can trace up to 47.63%
of the transaction inputs at a cost of just **1,746.53 USD.^1** Moreover, we
show also that more than 90% of the inputs are affected by our tracing
algorithm.
>1. That cost was based on transactions with 100 outputs, while the monero protocol
limits this number to 16, which increases the cost of the attack to roughly $10,000 USD
Some of those are from before 2017, but having your privacy broken for 3 years is something people would want to know and it shouldn't be hidden. Others are quite recent and still effectively deanon you. One of the authors of those articles stated recently that Monero's privacy is broken as is:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/bindps/when_the_fud_finally_fails_and_the_ugly_hot_girl/em92sbz/
>>fireice_uk stated in his article, there's really no way to fix it.
>I didn't say that. I think it can be fixed, however **_*as is*_**, **Monero's (and all other cryptonotes') privacy is not fit for purpose.**
[Vitalik Buterin Eyes Research on Privacy Coin Monero’s Traceability](https://www.ccn.com/vitalik-buterin-eyes-research-on-privacy-coin-moneros-traceability)
>Privacy schemes where the anonymity set of a single transaction is **smaller than the entire set of users of the scheme** are looking weaker and weaker with every passing month...Vitalik Non-giver of Ether
>>Emin Gün Sirer
>>認証済みアカウント
>>@el33th4xor
>>Interesting attack on **Monero traceability**. Essentially, the attacker floods the network with his own transactions, and is able to remove them from the mixins **later to identify other inputs.** Costs only $1.5k for a year long attack.
>https://twitter.com/MihailoBjelic/status/1126878887886106629 …
>12:34 - 2019年5月10日
[Monero Privacy Protections Aren't as Strong as They Seem | WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/monero-privacy/)
>The researchers also found a second problem in Monero's untraceability system tied to the timing of transactions. In any mix of one real coin and a set of fake coins bundled up in a transaction, **the real one** is very likely to have been **the most recent coin** to have moved prior to that transaction.
>Before a recent change from Monero's developers, that timing analysis **correctly identified the real coin more than 90 percent of the time**, virtually **nullifying Monero's privacy safeguards**. After that change to how Monero chooses its mixins, that trick now can spot **the real coin just 45 percent of the time—but still narrows down the real coin to about two possibilities**, far fewer than most Monero users would like.
>All of which means **Monero may continue to leak small amounts of information** that could be used to point to likely spenders—even if not providing a smoking gun. Even so, the researchers warn that small information leaks **can build up over time**, and can be **combined with other data sources to provide that more concrete evidence.**
>Perhaps more disturbingly for Monero users who spent coins before its privacy improvements, **indelible fingerprints could lead to their front door**. And that points to a more fundamental problem for cryptocurrencies offering privacy: Any security flaw discovered in the future might apply retroactively, allowing observers to dig up old skeletons buried in the currency's blockchain.

>Be aware, a former developer for Monero declares that Monero's privacy is not 'fit for purpose'
Former Monero developer is misleading. He had 1 commit not related to privacy before starting his own devtaxed fork. Not that he was deeply involved in development of Monero itself.
Well he tried to do more, but since he didn't want to do it to the usual Monero conditions (deliver, then get paid by the community crowdfunding) it didn't happen and he is quite salty since then :)

>Ryo, Monero, Turtlecoin, Graft, Bittube, Loki, Aeon and many more Cryptonight coins
So per your definition he is a former Ryo, Monero, Turtlecoin, Graft, Bittube, Loki, Aeon and many more Cryptonight coins developer.
Edit: oh, and I am a DASH developer. I have some tools, that interact with the DASH blockchain data. Cool stuff :)

>So per your definition he is a former Ryo, Monero, Turtlecoin, Graft, Bittube, Loki, Aeon and many more Cryptonight coins developer.
Yup. A former ....Monero... developer means he's **a former Monero** developer.
>Edit: oh, and I am a DASH developer. I have some tools, that interact with the DASH blockchain data. Cool stuff :)
Did you write the mining software that most Dash miners use? No. The only thing you've done is attempt to shill and lie about the project from within. You've attempted to infiltrate, but judging by the cool reaction of the community and how hard you try to 'fit in' by name-dropping, it looks like your attempts have largely failed/been exposed. Cool stuff :)

Correct. Mow, FP, and Lee all work together to support each other's projects and fud other, better projects like Dash. They also brigade and bully others into behaving the same way. Not communities likely to be sympathetic to their cause.

That itself is fud from the Monero community of course. Dash inherited the 'instamine' bug from LTC, and there was nobody who was scammed. Scams REQUIRE at least ONE victim claiming to have been hurt or injured (financially or however) in some way. If you can't provide anyone like that, that **makes you a liar.** Calling it a scam without evidence of such actually makes you a bad actor, so careful with that.
What **_*has*_** been proven, however, is that Dash is the only coin with instant transactions, instant respendability, strong privacy, governance all wrapped into one. When you see all of these benefits Dash has over other coins, **it makes sense why its competition has to rely on LIES and FUD in order to keep investors from abandoning the lesser projects**.

Sure, whatever you say. Again victims? Those who lost money due to the instamine? The fervor with which those who FUD Dash call it a 'scam' without offering any evidence **is a great way to gauge how successful and strong the proejct is**. They don't waste money trolling bad projects, *only the ones with wings.*

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The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件, liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing during 1989. The popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests is sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (Chinese: 八九民运, bājiǔ mínyùn). The protests started on April 15 and were forcibly suppressed on June 4 when the government declared martial law and sent the military to occupy central parts of Beijing. In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre (Chinese: 天安门大屠杀), troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square.
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When you get done 'helping' everybody with another colored revolution (Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, etc...) how about you spend some time helping us against the tyrannical government in the U.S.?

I know what you're doing is important to create leverage during the trade talks but we could use some help here at home.